After the Star started traveling at full speed, the interior of the ship became a little unstable.
Just at this time, Lin Yueru, Xiao Hong and the others had finished eating and quickly put away the tableware. To prevent the soup from spilling out.
After all, the Star is not big. After entering the open sea, the current sea conditions are about three meters high, and the hull has a certain amount of pitch and roll. It makes people's heads feel dizzy.
There is no way around this. After all, there is no fin stabilizer technology now. There is no bilge keel technology either. There is no way to reduce the shaking.
Lin Yueru felt like vomiting, so Xiaohong quickly brought a trash can. Lin Yueru was holding on to a pillar on the swaying hull of the ship. She wanted to vomit but couldn't. It was very uncomfortable.
"Miss, let me help you go to the balcony to get some fresh air." Xiaohong felt very uncomfortable, but she still insisted.
Lin Yueru and others came to the balcony called the Admiral's Corridor and felt better after enjoying the sea breeze.
"I didn't expect the waves on the sea to be so strong."
"Yes, they say the waves are three feet high without wind, but I think the waves are ten feet high."
"I never get sick when riding a boat in the river, but I didn't expect that I would get seasick when I got to the sea."
Everyone was talking about it and marveled at the majesty of the sea. The high-speed sailing of the Star gave them a great shock.
This boat can actually go so fast.
Looking behind the stern of the ship, a white track extends into the distance.
Countless sharks follow the boat and eat the fish that are turned up by the track brought by the stern of the boat.
"Wow, that's a shark, it's so big." The girls exclaimed. "It looks so brutal."
At this time, Chen Zuwang was on the bridge, looking at a group of sharks following behind him and said: "Put a hook, catch a few sharks, and make shark fin soup for the second lady in the evening."
"Nuo" several old sailors immediately took the order and left.
He pierced several big fish with iron hooks and threw them into the sea with ropes.
The sharks that smelled the smell of blood immediately began to bite, and they were all caught by fishhook in their upper jaws and caught.
The sailors immediately surrounded the shark with knives, cut off the dorsal fin with the knife, and then threw the shark into the sea again.
Shark meat doesn’t taste good and no one wants to eat it.
Chen San was steering the helm and couldn't help but tremble when he saw this cruel behavior. These people who make a living at sea are all very ruthless.
Seeing the bleeding shark being surrounded by sharks from behind. The smell of blood made them go crazy, and they immediately began to bite and devour the same kind.
"Ah! Miss, it's so scary!" Xiao Hong screamed, she saw the shark cannibalizing its own kind. It scared her.
"What are you shouting about? That's how sharks are. As long as they are injured, they will be eaten up and wiped clean by the surrounding accomplices. It's just like the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. When a wall falls, everyone will push it, and when a drum is broken, thousands of people will beat it." Lin Yueru said nonchalantly. .
By the afternoon of that day, the Star, which was moving at full speed, had reached the East China Sea.
The wind direction is very good today, always from the northeast, and Chen Zuwang has completely mastered the sextant and star navigation. Taking the straightest route, he estimates that he will be able to reach Nagasaki before noon tomorrow.
At this time, a rather strange sailing ship passed by from the southeast.
The strange thing about this boat is that it is a combination of a Western hull and Chinese hard sails. Because Chinese-style hard sails are more efficient, especially when facing the wind, they have obvious advantages over Western soft sails.
The lookout spotted the ship immediately and immediately notified the following using flags.
"Old lock ship, the ship type in Macau," Chen Zuwang said with a frown while observing with a telescope.
The old lock boat was invented by the Portuguese in Macao in the late Ming Dynasty, and quickly became popular along the southeastern coast of China.
Chinese hard sails have their own unique characteristics. This sail is an irregular shape. The sail has beams from top to bottom. Pull it up or down, just like a blind, to increase and decrease the area of the sail at will.
When sailing, the helmsman looks at the wind direction, so-called steering according to the wind.
If the wind is strong, you can unfurl a few fewer sails, or raise the sail halfway up the mast. If you encounter a sudden wind, you can quickly unmoor and lower the sail. When the wind becomes weak, you can unfurl all the sails.
In addition, the bamboo strips can tighten the Chinese sail, which will be better from an aerodynamic point of view.
If it is a soft Western sail, the sail will bulge too much and cause excessive wind turbulence, which will slow down the sailing speed.
The famous biologist Joseph Needham pointed out: "China's balanced quadrilateral sail is indeed the first-class achievement made by mankind in utilizing wind power."
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when Europeans finally sailed to China and saw the ships built by the Chinese with many masts and hard sails, they were deeply impressed.
Especially the Portuguese who had gained a place to settle.
After they came to China, they quickly realized the many benefits of Chinese hard sails, so they invented a new ship type, using a Western hull and Chinese sails. This ship type is called an old lock ship.
The Portuguese also improved the European hulls, making them more slender and greatly speeding up the ships. With a favorable wind, we can often reach a speed of six or seven knots.
It is almost twice the size of an ordinary lucky ship.
Of course, compared with the clipper ship, it is still not enough to see.
"Master Jie, look there is a ship over there. It looks like a Dutch ship with a flat deck, but it doesn't look like it, and the speed is too fast." The captain, Old Heiyu, said loudly.
Zheng Jie also saw the boat. He was shocked to see the sailboat sailing on the sea as if it was flying. The slightly upward bow of the boat stirred up huge waves.
"What kind of ship is this? Why is it so fast?" Zheng Jie immediately realized the great value of this ship.
He stared at it greedily. He was an old pirate at sea and very knowledgeable.
He knew that at this speed, the ship would soon pass them by, and it would be impossible to find it in the vast sea.
"Quickly, load that English cannon!" Zheng Jie shouted hurriedly.
"Master Jie, we don't know the background of this ship, so it's not good to just start a war." Old Heiyu said loudly.
"The big boss will definitely be interested in this ship. It is too fast. As long as we capture this ship, we can find out how it was made. With this kind of ship, we will definitely be even more powerful. This is a great achievement." " Zheng Jie shouted loudly. "I'll be responsible if something goes wrong. Hurry up. If you hesitate any longer, they'll run away."
Hearing what Zheng Jie said, the sailors said nothing and immediately turned the cannon mounted on the millstone to face the Star, and then began loading gunpowder and solid spherical bullets.
This gun was salvaged from a British armed merchant ship that ran aground and sank.
This time Zheng Zhilong planned to recruit people, so he had contacted Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, several times and sent a lot of money. Xiong Wencan's side is no longer a big problem.
Now we need to get through the joints of the imperial court. After all, such a big matter as recruiting pirates requires the capital to make a decision. Now that the Donglin Party is in power, Zheng Zhilong contacted Mr. Qian Longxige through the Donglin Party members in Jiangnan so that the matter could be completed through the cabinet.
So, he sent his confidant Zheng Jie to the capital to open up the joints with 300,000 taels of gold. Everyone knows that people in Donglin have a big appetite. Zheng Zhilong also had to spend money.
When Chen Zuwang saw the boat on the other side turn around, he immediately knew that the other side had evil intentions. He is an experienced seafarer, and he knows exactly what is on the sea.
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These bastards, when they stick their butts out, he knows what color of shit they want to poop.
"Ring the bell, everyone enters level one alert, everyone distributes weapons and prepares to fight."
As the bells of winter and winter came to mind, everyone got busy. Some prepared artillery, and some moved ammunition onto the deck. The infantrymen began to load their flintlock rifles, and the sailors began to adjust their course.
Lin Yueru was taking a nap and planned to take a beauty sleep after lunch. Not long after he lay down, he was interrupted by the rapid ringing of the bell.
Immediately afterwards, Dongdongdong's knock came from outside.
